22 July 2004
The National Campaign for Children's Radio has called
on regulator Ofcom to create a fund to support radio for children and to
recognise its value in early years development and...
22 July 2004
The wrong photo was printed on page 9 of Nursery World,
10 June, alongside the caption about Little Rainbows, the hotel-based nursery,
in Poole, Dorset. The correct photo to accompany...
22 July 2004
Bogus agencies are increasingly targeting nurseries and
playgroups, using threatening language to trick them into handing over up to
£135 to register under the Data Protection Act. Efforts to extort...
22 July 2004
A nursery was named as one of the UK's first Investors
in People Champions last week for its excellent employee management. Old School
House Day Nursery in Newmarket has developed...
22 July 2004
Labour's plans for a further massive expansion of early
years provision seem to be putting quantity before quality - again. Simon Vevers
hears what leading figures in the sector think...
22 July 2004
* The Sure Start budget will rise from 2004/05 to
2007/08 by £769m, an average real terms increase of 17 per cent * 120,000
additional childcare places by 2008
22 July 2004
A child's challenging behaviour may require early years
practitioners to implement a crisis management strategy, say members of the
Camden Early Years Intervention Team Last year, a national broadsheet covered...
22 July 2004
In the second of four articles about meningitis, Jane
Edmonds examines how the sudden death of one boy brought together the parents
and staff from his nursery Melanie Dix is...
22 July 2004
Explore the wide biodiversity in your outdoor area,
says Claire Warden Create an outdoor area that will sustain a wide variety of
plants and animals and use the area to...
22 July 2004
Music corner by Susan Young, author of Music with the
under-fours (RoutledgeFalmer) Songs for outdoors